Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal A. W. Sambrooke, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, late McGill University Company, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (McG.87 Pte. A. W. Sambrooke. P.P.C.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Mc G-87 A. Cpl. A. W. Sambrooke. P.P.C.L.I.); Jubilee 1935; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (A. W. Sambrooke) mounted for display, very fine (5) £600-£800

R.C.M.P. Long Service Medal Canada Gazette 27 July 1935.

Jubilee Medal confirmed in Canada Gazette 4 May 1935.

Arthur Wynne Sambroke was born at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 2 February 1883, and went to Canada early in 1903. He engaged in the North-West Mounted Police at Winnipeg on 25 November 1903, serving as a Constable at Regina, Battleford and Indian Head, and took his discharge from the Force on 24 November 1908, at Regina on expiration of his term of service. A member of the 2nd University Company, McGill University, Montreal, he was taken on the strength of the 2nd Reinforcement Draft, P.P.C.L.I., at Saskatoon on 7 May 1915. He embarked for overseas service on board the S.S. Northland from the port of Montreal on 29 June 1915, joining the battalion in the field on 1 September 1915, at Petit Mouton, France. He was demobilised on 28 August 1919, and returned to Canada where he subsequently joined the Alberta Provincial Police at Edmonton on 19 April 1920. He was promoted to Corporal in April 1921 and transferred to Grande Prairie Detachment where he remained until 1925. He later served at McLennan and Fairview Detachments. In April 1932, the R.C.M.P. absorbed the Alberta Provincial Police and Arthur Sambrooke rejoined the Force as a Constable. He remained at Fairview until 1935 and was promoted to Corporal. His last three years of service with the Force were spent in Edmonton. He retired to pension on 31 March 1938, and died in Victoria, B.C., on 13 February 1949.